Kathryn Foster Ph.D.

Why Pursue A Past Life Regression?

For self understanding, self actualization Human Beings need a witness to their lives. We need someone to see and hear what has happened to us. We want to be understood. The amazing thing about Past Life Regressions is that you are able to witness your own self, to come to an understanding of why you are as you are. The experience can be profoundly insightful. It gives you a chance to forgive those who have, in the past, hurt you, freeing you from old resentments and scars. A PLR tends to tends to be empowering, freeing and motivating, allowing a positive shift in one's energies and attitudes, and allowing for the expansion of self. Overcoming the fear of death is one of the major rewards of experiencing a PLR.Under hypnosis, in a PLR, people are often able to move easily either backward or forward in time. Glimpsing one’s future can help direct you to make changes now, thereby altering your prospects in years to come. A future regression (or "progression," more properly) may also motivate you to pursue certain skills, education, or ventures now, in preparation. Progressions are also known to produce hope. Self actualization has to do with reaching one's full potential. PLR tends to be empowering, freeing and motivating, allowing a positive shift in one's energies and attitudes, and allowing for the expansion of the self. Overcoming the fear of death is one of the major rewards of experiencing a PLR.

To become self directedA PLR can allow you to move away from reactive to self-directed living because it helps you develop a healthy detachment about life. In so doing, you can disallow circumstances and others to determine your behaviors. You begin responding in wisdom, not defensiveness or hopelessness.A major human problem is that we are pulled apart by conflicting inner drives, which keep us stuck. A PLR helps to unify your subconscious desires with your conscious desires. With greater one-mindedness, you can move forward with purpose and focus.

To Resolve Relationship StrugglesThe movie, Dead Again, starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, portrayed a relationship entanglement (albeit Hollywood-ized) that could be understood only by examining their past lives. Sometimes we carry feelings that are unexplained in this life, but that can make sense once we've examined the happenings of a past life. These include feeling afraid of a person, being unwilling to engage with him or her, feeling indebted to someone, feeling an ostensibly innocent person has victimized you, and so on.During a PLR an "a ha!" moment occurs. If you find you’ve been harmed by someone, you can forgive and release them. If you have harmed them, you can forgive yourself, and move on. Forgiving can open to the door to much more meaningful and free-flowing relationships in this life.

For HealingAn unresolved past life experience can tie you needlessly to the past experience, so that less of your focus and energy is directed into your current life. PLR can make subjects more capable of living-in-the-here-and-now, more motivated to connect with others and otherwise invest in the details of whatever "current life" presents them. Symptoms, created in a past life, can resurface in this life and be hard to resolve without more subterranean methods. Re-living events from a past life releases people, allowing many to escape from inexplicable sadness, self esteem problems, panic, phobias, etc. Emotionally charged or traumatizing events from past lives can be discharged under hypnosis, resulting in freedom from symptoms, difficult emotions, and restricting or painful beliefs. Some people seek PLR because a current trauma— a death or car accident, for example, reactivates a past life memory, exacerbating anxiety or other symptoms. The PLR may then serve to resolve the underlying memory along with the potentially crippling beliefs that go with them. Past life regressions may help solve the emotional component behind a physical illness. Many researchers, including John Sarno, M.D., author of The Mindbody Prescription, believe that healing the emotional aspects of a physical illness can reap lasting, seemingly miraculous results.Of course, Past Life Therapy does not claim to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure disease, mental or physical. It is currently considered an alternative therapy and, being a subjective experience, results cannot be guaranteed.